Slackware

well, now I did it, I removed windows (eaysier then I thouht it would be) and installed linux (Lindows), and I have to say that I like it very much.

now

where can I find a free C-- compiler, Text Editor, (games), generaly important software ??

Fire up a terminal window.

For a text editor, type vi. For a C compiler, you've got gcc. I'm not too sure how Lindows goes about giving you such tools, but with most of the other major Linux distributions, these tools are usually installed - and if not can be found on the distro media. For development, you'll need the appropriate libraries and devel packages installed too. Again, most good distros come with literally 1000's of packages (development, editors, office tools, terminals, configuration utilities, etc, etc) and can be installed on demand. You'll also get a huge suite of command line utilities encompassing a superset of the Unix tools and utilities.

I know Lindows comes with some "Click 'n' Run" subscription based shenanigans, not too sure how it works though.

You can always D/L software from www.gnu.org www.freshmeat.net www.sourceforge.net and other places - you can always search www.google.com for anything else you want.

The point I made about charging round as "root" is if you are using the terminal, screw up your wildcard expansion when issuing an rm -r, you can traverse the whole filesystem and obliterate your installation.

Cheers
ZB
(NOT a fan of Lindows! )

xmame is a fine Game Emulator for linux.

me neighter, thats why I uninstalled it and installed windows again, but I am thinking about installing some other distrobution, maby mandrake or slackware

Seeing as you're new to Linux, I'd recommend that you start of with Mandrake. Once your comfortable with it, you can consider installing another distro like Slackware or SuSE.


Cheers
ZB

Try to use VMWARE or WIN4LIN. They are good Windows Emulators. If you try VMWARE you can install BSD and Linux systems too. WIN4LIN is cheaper than VMWARE, it's for people who lacks the Microsoft Office suite and you cannot use it to install other OS than Windows.
Good luck.Here are the links.

www.netraverse.com
www.vmware.com

Why not consider Fedora core 2? It's easy to use and good for starters and installing it is easy too. Fedora core 2 is also very advanced with alot of features.

I too wouldn't recommend Slackware for beginners.